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Lady Gaga is still not dead – stop falling for Facebook scams

19

Sep

2011

This weekend we saw another spate of Facebook messages claiming to link to a BBC News report of the death of Lady Gaga. Of course, the claims are untrue – and Lady Gaga is still alive. But that isn’t stopping Facebook scammers from creating money-making websites that claim that the eccentric pop star has been […]

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Apple hires fake Viagra expert to stop counterfeit iDevices

31

Aug

2011

Apple has been in the news recently concerning the spate of entire fake Apple Stores (23 at last count) popping up in China. Cult of Mac is reporting that Apple’s global security chief, John Theriault, has hired Don Shruhan, a former Pfizer colleague, to help track down and stop the production of counterfeit Apple products. […]

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Global Debt Crises News Drives Pump-and-Dump Stock Scams

11

Aug

2011

Just as they sound, pump-and-dump stocks are promoted (pumped) by their owners in order to inflate the price of the stocks as much as possible so that they may then be sold (dumped) before their valuation crashes back to reality. The spam for these scams tries to convince the prospective mark that the penny stock […]

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